The only thing driving the "average" price up is the rip off £1.39 -£1.45 per litre charged by motorway and other self styled service stations.
Keep it real, better out.
Outrage as petrol prices rise by 22p during pandemic
Petrol prices are 22p per litre more expensive than a year ago, but in 2020 the fuel supply chain took advantage of falling prices and “ripped off the UK’s 37 million drivers”, FairFuelUK has said.
It explained that last year when oil prices fell 37.39% in sterling compared to the 12 months prior, wholesale petrol price fell by 14.29% and pump prices fell by just 9.68%.
This meant a "staggering 48.4% increase in fuel supply chain profits” as average filling up profits for petrol rose from 9.3p ($0.13) per litre to 13.8p, it found.
Similarly, wholesale diesel price fell by 13.7% but pump prices fell by just 10.06%, which the organisation said increased supply chain profits by 25.71%.
It estimates average filling up profits for diesel rose from 12.2p per litre to 15.3p.
“It is worse than stomach-churning that the fuel supply chain has knowingly used COVID to rip off UK’s 37 million drivers,” said Howard Cox, founder of FairFuelUK.
“To exploit a national crisis and screw the world's highest taxed drivers, to line their pockets is scandalous. For decades, wholesalers have ripped off drivers at will, but this time they have reached a new low.”
UK car insurance provider RAC said May was the seventh consecutive month to experience a rise in the price of petrol – which is now 22p per litre more expensive than a year ago. This was the biggest 12-month increase seen in 11 years, the company said.
Let's examine 1 of the points in that article. The 1 relating to Sainsburys.
Sainsburys has 13 stores in Northern Ireland. Due to the so-called "integrity of the Single Market" adopted by the Masterrace, Sainsburys is not allowed to sell any of its goods in Northern Ireland unless it can prove that stuff is not being sold across the border which may have been produced in Great Britain. Consequently, it is having to source most of its product in NI from a rival supplier.
How many stores does Sainsburys have in the Republic of Ireland? None. The only "export" will be people nipping over the border to shop in NI Sainsburys. Which they are free to do in Northern Ireland-the UK does not restrict purchases. We do not wish to penalise the people of Ireland-unlike, of course, the EU.
The Good Friday Agreement was all about freedom. Freedom to identify as being British, or supporting an All-Ireland agenda. Living in far greater harmony than previously-due to considerable concessions made by both the UK and Ireland.
Compare and contrast with the EU. Unwilling to allow 1 of its members freely to trade with its only neighbour. Not allowing both sides of the border to trade freely, regardless of the fact that the vast majority of these goods will never leave the island of Ireland. How difficult would it be to have different rules for items exported outside of the island of Ireland rather than remaining there? The EU has managed to do that elsewhere.
I dislike the UK government. It sells us short, and tries to con us. But for their own ends, and greed. Better that than the sort of dogma that belongs in a George Orwell book.
This one should be right up your street. Taking back control?
The ONE major legal convention that could wreak havoc on Britain's Brexit - explained
The Lugano Convention was established in 2007 and is an international treaty negotiated by the EU.
Its purpose is to provide legal clarity and safeguarding across borders, making litigation more accessible between countries.
The convention covers all EU states as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland - and the UK used to be a part of this as well.
But the EU has now rejected the UK's application to join the Lugano Convention, which could negatively affect millions of British citizens, and is particularly important for businesses.
Oh dear, getting Brexit done has actually driven immigration numbers up – is this what you promised, prime minister?
Boris Johnson promised the public that voting for Brexit and supporting the Tories in the last general election, in order to “get Brexit done”, would lead to a significant reduction in immigration.
However, the facts tell a very different story. In the final set of immigration figures we’ll see before leaving the EU, the UK’s new net migration statistics show it has gone up to 313,000 over the past year to March. This is a rise of about one-third from 221,000 a year ago. The rise was fuelled by the 715,000 people who came to the UK over the previous 12 months. This is a four-year high of migration from non-EU countries, where the UK has tighter controls – controls that will soon be extended to EU citizens. Getting Brexit done has not seen immigration go down; it has driven it up.
A key claim by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been that leaving the EU was essential to better control EU migration. The argument was that freedom of movement restricted the UK’s ability to control its borders. Yet, as we can see, the data doesn’t back this up.
What should especially concern the government is that it has modelled its post-Brexit migration policies on how it manages non-EU citizens. There is already a points-based system in place since 2008, although it is currently used only for non-EU migrants. The prime minister’s idea is that, if this points-based system was extended to include EU nationals, there would be greater control on numbers and they would definitely go down. Or so he keeps saying.
However, we can see the opposite is actually happening. EU migration is going down (which Johnson claims is out of control), while non-EU migration continues to go up (which he claims is fully under control). The obvious conclusion we can draw is that, despite repeated promises to the contrary, regulating EU nationals like non-EU citizens broadly under the current points-based system may easily lead to net migration rises in future.
Fury as Brexiteer who claimed ‘Brexit won’t hurt Northern Ireland’ suggests country ‘was sacrificed’
A Brexiteer who once penned a column arguing that Brexit would not “hurt Northern Ireland at all” is facing a backlash after appearing to admit the country was “sacrificed” so Brexit could happen.
Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat What an absolute disgrace.
Brexiteer Kate Hoey states, with zero remorse, “I think we all know how we got here, that Northern Ireland was sacrificed because otherwise it could have been that we weren't going to get Brexit at all."
Now Wetherspoons runs out of BEER: Pub chain apologises as it becomes latest victim of supply chain crisis after stocks of Carling and Coors run dry due to shortage of HGV drivers
NEW The British hospitality giant confirmed that it has seen supplies of Carling and Coors beer hit by the disruption, with some pubs not receiving deliveries amid a shortage of HGV drivers.
Absurd! EU to spark fresh 'nightmare' as bloc ignores UK offer on tense Brexit border row
The European Commission is currently preparing a plan to ensure the continued long-term supply of medicines from Great Britain to Northern Ireland from next year under the Northern Ireland Protocol. But despite the UK Government's objections to the suggestion, Eurocrats are working on a legislative proposal for the European Council and the European Parliament to consider.
Ireland has 2 vitally important (and biggest) markets for exports and imports. They are the USA and the UK. The EU's mantra on European "Union" seeks to prevent Ireland trading with it's biggest partners.
You may think Kate Hoey is mad, but I believe it is not in Ireland's best economic interests to be in a trading bloc that seeks to penalise Ireland's biggest customers. The deal as it stands is just as bad for Ireland as it is the UK.
The UK is eager to have/continue the special trading relationship that it has had with Ireland since before the EEC (never mind the EU) was formed. In particular, the North West of Ireland and the West of Northern Ireland are much more dependant on one another than on London, Belfast or Dublin.
If there has to be trading posts set up, that will be at the EU's insistence, and (presumably) at Ireland's cost. Because it is not our Single Market. Compare and contrast this with the dispensations given to the Canaries, French dependencies, even the UK bases on Cyprus.
When we were in the EU, and the Channel Islands, Isle of Man etc were not, the EU did not adopt the same position as in Northern Ireland now.
Wetherspoon is running out of beer – is this really the Brexit you voted for, Tim Martin?
However, the RHA goes on to explicitly blame Brexit, saying that the uncertainty around their future in the UK was what made many of those drivers leave, and – more importantly – that Brexit is the reason they’re not expected to come back.
The RHA explicitly said we can’t train up British drivers fast enough. They also cited the ageing and retiring workforce as a growing problem. Those who immigrate to the UK are statistically younger than the existing population, meaning that immigration lowers the age of our workforce.
So what is the top measure the RHA is asking the government for? “Access to EU and EEA labour. We ask for the introduction of a temporary worker visa for HGV drivers and for this occupation to be added to the Home Office shortage occupation list.”
Brexit is undoubtedly a factor. But there are others. HGV driving has been a ticking time bomb for many years.
HGV drivers are often paid little more than minimum wage. When you add in the poor lifestyle, poor work-life balance, and the fact that it costs £thousands to get a Licence, little wonder that UK drivers have shunned the job for decades.
We knew we were leaving the EU years ago. Yet UK logistics companies have done little or nothing-unless you count putting up their prices. Where was the planning for the inevitable change?
Add in the facts that we are on the outer edge of Europe, an island, Covid, and the fact that every European country has a major shortage of HGV drivers.
Brexit is undoubtedly a factor. But there are others. HGV driving has been a ticking time bomb for many years.
HGV drivers are often paid little more than minimum wage. When you add in the poor lifestyle, poor work-life balance, and the fact that it costs £thousands to get a Licence, little wonder that UK drivers have shunned the job for decades.
We knew we were leaving the EU years ago. Yet UK logistics companies have done little or nothing-unless you count putting up their prices. Where was the planning for the inevitable change?
Add in the facts that we are on the outer edge of Europe, an island, Covid, and the fact that every European country has a major shortage of HGV drivers.
But much easier just to blame it on Brexit....
So BREXIT has had no effect ? Surely even you cant say that. It has had an effect on most things and mostly negative.
Any negative effect is bad and I await to see the good times BREXITEERS promised and live in hope for my children and grandchildren.
Brexit is undoubtedly a factor. But there are others. HGV driving has been a ticking time bomb for many years.
HGV drivers are often paid little more than minimum wage. When you add in the poor lifestyle, poor work-life balance, and the fact that it costs £thousands to get a Licence, little wonder that UK drivers have shunned the job for decades.
We knew we were leaving the EU years ago. Yet UK logistics companies have done little or nothing-unless you count putting up their prices. Where was the planning for the inevitable change?
Add in the facts that we are on the outer edge of Europe, an island, Covid, and the fact that every European country has a major shortage of HGV drivers.
But much easier just to blame it on Brexit....
So BREXIT has had no effect ? Surely even you cant say that. It has had an effect on most things and mostly negative.
Any negative effect is bad and I await to see the good times BREXITEERS promised and live in hope for my children and grandchildren.
Of course Brexit is a factor. That is why my first words were:-
"Brexit is undoubtedly a factor."
Personally, I don't think the UK should have voted for Brexit. But it did. Deal with it.
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Hung out to dry! EU refused to let British Overseas Territories be in Brexit trade deal
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/hung-out-to-dry-eu-refused-to-let-british-overseas-territories-be-in-brexit-trade-deal/ar-AAN4F6s?ocid=msedgntp
Taking back control?
The ONE major legal convention that could wreak havoc on Britain's Brexit - explained
The Lugano Convention was established in 2007 and is an international treaty negotiated by the EU.
Its purpose is to provide legal clarity and safeguarding across borders, making litigation more accessible between countries.
The convention covers all EU states as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland - and the UK used to be a part of this as well.
But the EU has now rejected the UK's application to join the Lugano Convention, which could negatively affect millions of British citizens, and is particularly important for businesses.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/the-one-major-legal-convention-that-could-wreak-havoc-on-britain-s-brexit-explained/ar-AAN197A?ocid=msedgntp
Oh dear, getting Brexit done has actually driven immigration numbers up – is this what you promised, prime minister?
Boris Johnson promised the public that voting for Brexit and supporting the Tories in the last general election, in order to “get Brexit done”, would lead to a significant reduction in immigration.
However, the facts tell a very different story. In the final set of immigration figures we’ll see before leaving the EU, the UK’s new net migration statistics show it has gone up to 313,000 over the past year to March. This is a rise of about one-third from 221,000 a year ago. The rise was fuelled by the 715,000 people who came to the UK over the previous 12 months. This is a four-year high of migration from non-EU countries, where the UK has tighter controls – controls that will soon be extended to EU citizens. Getting Brexit done has not seen immigration go down; it has driven it up.
A key claim by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been that leaving the EU was essential to better control EU migration. The argument was that freedom of movement restricted the UK’s ability to control its borders. Yet, as we can see, the data doesn’t back this up.
What should especially concern the government is that it has modelled its post-Brexit migration policies on how it manages non-EU citizens. There is already a points-based system in place since 2008, although it is currently used only for non-EU migrants. The prime minister’s idea is that, if this points-based system was extended to include EU nationals, there would be greater control on numbers and they would definitely go down. Or so he keeps saying.
However, we can see the opposite is actually happening. EU migration is going down (which Johnson claims is out of control), while non-EU migration continues to go up (which he claims is fully under control). The obvious conclusion we can draw is that, despite repeated promises to the contrary, regulating EU nationals like non-EU citizens broadly under the current points-based system may easily lead to net migration rises in future.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/oh-dear-getting-brexit-done-has-actually-driven-immigration-numbers-up-is-this-what-you-promised-prime-minister/ar-BB1chPbI?ocid=msedgntp
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/eu-under-pressure-as-covid-pandemic-brings-internal-post-brexit-fractures-to-bear/ar-AANkAof?ocid=msedgntp
Ann Widdecombe can't give this caller a benefit for leaving the EU
Fury as Brexiteer who claimed ‘Brexit won’t hurt Northern Ireland’ suggests country ‘was sacrificed’
A Brexiteer who once penned a column arguing that Brexit would not “hurt Northern Ireland at all” is facing a backlash after appearing to admit the country was “sacrificed” so Brexit could happen.
Dr. Jennifer Cassidy
@OxfordDiplomat
What an absolute disgrace.
Brexiteer Kate Hoey states, with zero remorse, “I think we all know how we got here, that Northern Ireland was sacrificed because otherwise it could have been that we weren't going to get Brexit at all."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/fury-as-brexiteer-who-claimed-brexit-won-t-hurt-northern-ireland-suggests-country-was-sacrificed/ar-AANWoOt?ocid=msedgntp
Now Wetherspoons runs out of BEER: Pub chain apologises as it becomes latest victim of supply chain crisis after stocks of Carling and Coors run dry due to shortage of HGV drivers
NEW The British hospitality giant confirmed that it has seen supplies of Carling and Coors beer hit by the disruption, with some pubs not receiving deliveries amid a shortage of HGV drivers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9947111/Now-Wetherspoons-runs-BEER-latest-victim-supply-chain-crisis.html
The European Commission is currently preparing a plan to ensure the continued long-term supply of medicines from Great Britain to Northern Ireland from next year under the Northern Ireland Protocol. But despite the UK Government's objections to the suggestion, Eurocrats are working on a legislative proposal for the European Council and the European Parliament to consider.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/absurd-eu-to-spark-fresh-nightmare-as-bloc-ignores-uk-offer-on-tense-brexit-border-row/ar-AANZRyA?ocid=msedgntp
However, the RHA goes on to explicitly blame Brexit, saying that the uncertainty around their future in the UK was what made many of those drivers leave, and – more importantly – that Brexit is the reason they’re not expected to come back.
The RHA explicitly said we can’t train up British drivers fast enough. They also cited the ageing and retiring workforce as a growing problem. Those who immigrate to the UK are statistically younger than the existing population, meaning that immigration lowers the age of our workforce.
So what is the top measure the RHA is asking the government for? “Access to EU and EEA labour. We ask for the introduction of a temporary worker visa for HGV drivers and for this occupation to be added to the Home Office shortage occupation list.”
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/wetherspoons-running-beer-really-brexit-141416063.html
HGV driving has been a ticking time bomb for many years.
HGV drivers are often paid little more than minimum wage. When you add in the poor lifestyle, poor work-life balance, and the fact that it costs £thousands to get a Licence, little wonder that UK drivers have shunned the job for decades.
We knew we were leaving the EU years ago. Yet UK logistics companies have done little or nothing-unless you count putting up their prices. Where was the planning for the inevitable change?
Add in the facts that we are on the outer edge of Europe, an island, Covid, and the fact that every European country has a major shortage of HGV drivers.
But much easier just to blame it on Brexit....
Any negative effect is bad and I await to see the good times BREXITEERS promised and live in hope for my children and grandchildren.
"Brexit is undoubtedly a factor."
Personally, I don't think the UK should have voted for Brexit. But it did. Deal with it.